History of the Marine Corps

I’m writing a research paper on the founding of the USMC right now, but for some reason I had the urge to write a brief summarization of it.

Marine combat has been around for thousands of years, the Greeks, Egyptians, all those good guys employed marine warfare. But marine forces that were more directly related to the birth of our current United States Marine Corps started happening in the 1600s. King Charles II of England had the Royal Marines, of which the American colonials were a part of since roughly 1740. I think it’s safe to assume that once the American Revolution started, those loyal to England remained part of the Royal Marines, and those loyal to America left. But I did not read that in any of my books.

In 1775, the Continential Congress ordered the creation of 2 battalions of marines, thus forming the Continential Marines. Captain Samuel Nicholas was put in command of these battalions, as well as given the responsibility of recruiting those 2 battalions. As any Marine will tell you, that recruiting took place at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia. Captain Nicholas is considered the first commandant of the Marine Corps.

The Continential Marines fought and led many battles during the Revolution, but afterwards, they kind of dissolved. There wasn’t an immediately obvious need for them. In the 1790s, however, we started to get into trouble with the Barbary Pirates and France. So Congress ordered the creation of the Department of the Navy, and shortly after that a “Marine Corps.” And that is when the actual United States Marine Corps was founded. And of course they have served as America’s finest in all of our conflicts since then.

Once I am done with my paper, I’ll probably post that up here. Which should be in a few weeks, following the class schedule.

AE Quotes – 1

I am starting a new category of posts called AE Quotes. And it is going to be funny/cute/weird things that my little twin sisters say. I’m doing this for 2 reasons:

1. The can be quite, accidentally funny at times.
2. For remembrance sake.

I should have started doing this a long time ago, but I just got the idea today.

So to start this series off, this is something that the E of AE Quotes said -

Sometimes when I get back from running, I’ll lay down on the floor because my sisters like to bring me ice and put towels on me and stuff. So I had just returned, and was laying on the ground when she started to blow air on my face from an inflatable sword that had a hole in it. I couldn’t feel the air, and she asked,

“Do you feel that?”

“No.”

“You just felt air blowing on your face.”

Ya they don’t take no for an answer.

Blog-tag: 5 Things You Probably (might) Not Know About Me

It appears as though I have just been tagged by Marek (Think This //) in a game of blog tag (ya I had no idea that was such a thing either). This particular game was started by Jeff Pulver, and the “rules” are, that you say 5 things not many people know about you, and then tag 5 more bloggers. I don’t think I know that many bloggers so we’ll see what I do once I get that far. Anyway…

1. I pretty much never sleep in my bed, I usually sleep on the floor in the family room.
2. There are some people, that when I talk to them, I feel like they have no idea what I’m talking about. Not because I’m reciting super advanced mathematical formulas or anything. They just don’t get what I’m saying. (it probably doesn’t make any more sense to me, then reading this makes to you)
3. I’m sitting on the couch right now and I am extremely uncomfortable.
4. One time, in 2nd grade or so, I got in trouble with the music teacher (it wasn’t my fault, Matt Mueller was making faces at me) and had to write her an apology note.
5. When I was a ‘lil fella, I had a Little Mermaid Barbie… I don’t anymore though.

Now for the 5 people.  As I said I don’t really know very many people who have blogs.

Bill Hardin

Mom Hardin

Rianne Hardin

Matthew Wells 

Well that’s good enough I think.

Anna Nicole Smith

Why is the news wasting all of their broadcast time on Anna Nicole Smith? Thousands of people die each day, and it’s sad. Do we need to have hour upon hour of news TV time to the story about one unimportant person’s death? There are several stories that networks could be sending reporters to for investigation. Such as -

• MEND rebels in Nigeria.
• Police officer shortage in Los Angeles.
• What was that thing going on in Iraq? I forgot…. ummm, oh ya! A WAR. That makes far better news.
• 8 feet of snow in New York, that’s cool.

It just seems like there are far more important things going on right now.  She has been the main headline on Drudge Report for at least 12 hours straight now (probably longer, that’s just how long I’ve been keeping track), Greta devoted pretty much her entire show to the story on Fox News.  Which was disappointing because over on CNN they were covering some of those other things I mentioned.

Beauty Salon

As I’m writing this I am sitting in a nail/hair/massage salon…. next time my mom asks if I want to come in or stay in the car, I’ll definitely chose the latter.  First of all, it smells.  It smells terrible.  I don’t know what all that girl stuff is, but if I were to match the stench with odors I’ve whiffed in the past, I’d say it’s nail polish.  Gallons of nail polish.  Maybe even some sort of nail polish factory.

Okay, I seriously can’t contain myself.  A woman sitting kitty corner from me just said, “I’m wearing long johns.”  I don’t really care to hear that.

Aside from the horrid smell and the long john lady, it’s just kind of weird in here.  The cushions on one of the benches are kind of cheetah looking.  There’s some goofy rugs on the floor and someone took there shoes off before they went into one of the rooms.

The conversation between the customers and stylists is riveting.  One lady was talking about how hairy someone (it might have been her) was, the need for some body part to be waxed (I don’t want to know what part), and one lady just asked another lady if “you found a bubble bath.”

I hope my mom is done soon cause I have to go to the bathroom (there’s no way I’m going to explore around this building looking for a bathroom), I’m starting to get a little dizzy from the afore mentioned stink, and I just don’t think I can be surrounded by all this womanism for too much longer.